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Mission Status

They Go Up So Fast

Last Updated: 40 minutes ago
SUCCESS
Orbit Achieved
Unknown
Vehicle
Electron
Launch Site
LC-1A
Orbit
Sun-Synchronous Orbit
Profile
Dedicated Rideshare
Monday, March 22, 2021 10:30 PM UTC Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand

Mission State

Schedule
Date and time on file

This mission currently has a dated launch window in the tracker.

Coverage
Official livestream linked

The primary watch link points to an official Rocket Lab source.

Name Origin

AI

Play on "they grow up so fast" — wistful and nostalgic. This mission delivered Rocket Lab's 100th satellite to orbit, making the milestone sentiment the primary driver of the name.

"They Go Up So Fast"

Mission Overview

The Electron rocket will carry seven satellites to low Earth orbit: one Earth-observation satellite for BlackSky, two Internet-Of-Things (IoT) nanosatellites for companies Fleet Space and Myriota, a technology demonstration satellite for the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Canberra Space, a weather satellite pathfinder technology demonstration from Care Weather technologies, a technology demonstrator for the U.S. Army’s Space and Missile Defense Command as well as Rocket Lab’s in-house designed and built Photon Pathstone spacecraft which will operate on orbit as a risk reduction demonstration to build spacecraft heritage ahead of Rocket Lab’s mission to the Moon for NASA later this year.

Technical Details

Vehicle
Electron
Rocket Lab launch vehicle
Launch Site
Launch Complex 1A
LC-1A · Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand
Target Orbit
Sun-Synchronous Orbit
Planned deployment regime
Mission Profile
Dedicated Rideshare
Mission architecture
Payload Mass
Unknown
Customer
Unknown
Mission customer
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